Twenty-three comments

Anderson’s

For backing I group this tune in my head with tunes like Midsummer’s Night - Ador tunes that aren’t straight-forward to put chords to. You can take it right out of its mode and do weird things with it. I like to throw F nats in at bar 6 like this: |=FG~G2 EGDa| or |=FGEG DGGg|

Is Anderson a Wild Irishman?

I was about to post this reel under a different title. As far as I know, this tune appears in two recordings: Paul McGrattan and Paul O’Shaughnessy’s "Within a Mile of Dublin"; and Catherine and John McEvoy’s "Kilmore Fancy." Two Pauls play it as a Sligo version of "The Wild Irishman," while McEvoys call it "The Flowers of the Red Mill (aka The Flowers of the Red Hill)." Really confusing! Please add some more info of this tune if you know it.

Let Down the Blade by Dervish

Micho Russel`s (The Flowers Of The Red Mill reel) is given here as the first tune in the Let Down the Blade set from Playing with Fire by Dervish. This is obviously a mistake, `cause this is a set of slides, two of which I easily found in the web but the first is a problem. Can someone help?

It’s pretty easy. You go to "search" and then type "Micho" into the box. This gives you a bunch of tunes, all called Micho Russell’s. You scan down until you come to one that says "slide" and then you click on it, and lo and behold, you get this tune: https://thesession.org/tunes/958.

Let Down the Blade by Dervish

Another one of Mick Hoy’s tunes absorbed from the playing of either Rev. Gary Hastings or Fr. Seamus Quinn. This version doesn’t differ much from Fr. Seamus’ recording of the tune on "Hidden Fermanagh Vol. 2" where it is paired with "The Boys of 25", which also came from Mick and can be found in the tune archives here. Seems to be a relative of "The Flowers of the Red Mill" which fluter John McKenna recorded way back when.

A case of not hearing the tune for transcribing the notes, I suppose. The two tunes are closer than I first thought, though not close to my playing of "The Flowers" which was a bit of a reconstruction of the tune remembered imperfectly from fluter Desi Wilkinson on the radio.

Wild Irishman

A Flute Classic

This reel has been recorded by at least 4 flute players in the last few years: Peter Horan, Catherine McEvoy with John McEvoy on the fiddle, John Blake with Lamond Gillespie on the fiddle, and James Carty. Well, James Carty actually plays it with John and John P. Carty both on the flute!

Setting #4

Flowers Of Red Hill

This is called Micho Russell’s on "Flying Pig" by Slide. Irishtune.info has it listed as Flowers of Red Hill, which is also a tune in Ador (similar to this one, but different enough):https://thesession.org/tunes/442